#pera

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#desperation #suicide #dreams

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. ↗

— August Wilson

#blacks #custodians #experience #had #operate

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive? ↗

— William Booth

#attention #concentrated #desperate #gospel #keep

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor. ↗

— Francis Wright

#appear #attentive #best #consideration #cooperation

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#necessarily #operatic #pieces #sing #us

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#seperation #time #friendship

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#grief #seperation #friendship

Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh I am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!", although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That's basically all of opera, reely. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#experience

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. ↗

— Josh Groban

#either #opera #rock #rock star #shower

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#expensive #foreign #hard #husband #like